Rosetta, Egypt, c. 1871/1872

Not on View

Medium

graphite and black crayon heightened with cream chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 16.51 × 29.85 cm (6 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 23.2 × 31.3 cm (9 1/8 × 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

John Davis Hatch Collection

Accession Number

1979.20.10

Artists / Makers

Charles J. Bridgman (artist) American, 1841 - 1895

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in graphite: (a Ch. De Tournemine) Environs de Rossetta (Ba[sse?] Egypt); upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: [not deciphered] / from 1871-1875 sketchbook / given to my husband Joe. 1943 by [not deciphered]

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Hatch, Jr., John Davis, Mr.

Bibliography

1976: Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 76.